I think I might try it with three Apollo 13 f2 clones (I took too many cuttings of it this last time).
I had to stick my face deep up into that X-Mas Bud plant to water a Chocolope plant in the back of this tent:
I've got a really small Cannabis Afghanica plant (supposed to be stable) that won't stop bloom. It's almost as bad as a GDP S1 I tried to reveg, which went into full bloom under 18/6. I was just gonna toss it, but then I realized that I could put it in with these two Apollo 13 f2s I'm breeding together once. More free seeds!
Somebody wrote "NOT the after dinner mint!" above a restaurant urinal I saw today; they drew an arrow pointing down at the pink cake I wrote underneath it "Too late! I already took a bite!"
The lower branches on this X-Mas Bud plant look normal. I might take one as a clone tomorrow; maybe whatever it is that makes the leaves look bad on the older plants hasn't spread into the newer growth yet:
Side by side of both Tikal plants. The plant on the left is the one grown under a 600w HPS, and the one on the right is the one grown under a 315w CMH:
It's hard to tell yield by this pic, because the plants drooped after a week of dark period. I'm going to do a dry weight at the end, but it's my estimate that there's 1-1/2 times as much on the HPS plant as there is on the CMH plant. It worked out that way with the amount on the oval plate I used. The longer flowering period probably contributed to that much of a difference. Maybe if I grew Indicas side by side the difference would be less and the results would be closer due to the shorter flowering times, but from what I've seen so far I doubt it.....
It's as good or better than a 400w HPS though, IMHO.
Here's an example of what you were talking about, Weaselcracker. It's one of my GTH#1 plants, and after looking about halfway browned up and almost ready for chop, it did this:
I just got done chopping a small Cannabis Afghanica plant and a clone from my GDP breeding project that I couldn't get to stop flowering, and both had some grey mold in the thickest center part of the main cola. I take a look at the lowers, and if they look like this.....
This is a clone of the Apollo 13 f2 I've been keeping for a while now. I shoved it into the male and a big ol' cloud of pollen burst off of it; I shut the door quick:
Here and there I toss an old freebie in the grow just to use it up. I usually pick older seeds, and this one I think was the oldest I had (Eva Seeds - Monster):
Thanks. I did me a pretty cool pumpkin for Halloween too. Should have got the chimp proof pumpkin carving kit instead of the safe for children one, though. Now I got me a hole in the meaty part of my thumb the size of a dime slot in the old pay phones; couldn't get it to stop bleeding for ten minutes.....
I think I'll do about 24 of these 818 Headband x Grand Daddy Purple reg seeds this Winter. Every time I do 6 or less, I don't get the phenos I look for. I can already tell that these two are going to get color, but they don't look like the ones I've grown in the past: